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Garyville,LA 
Today
Light rain shower High 87FLow 74F
  • Temp: 75F
  • Hum: 89%
  • W: 0mph N
THURSDAY
Partly Cloudy
High 83F
Low 72F
FRIDAY
Sunny
High 85F
Low 71F
SATURDAY
Sunny
High 85F
Low 65F
SUNDAY
Sunny
High 82F
Low 64F

May 6

Run
  • 21m 54s
  • 2.15 miles
  • 10m 11s /Mi

Run to the Sun AM dog park in the neighborhood.

Bike
  • 1h 00m
  • 6.00 miles
  • 6.00 Mi/hr

Trek Factory Demo @ state park. Rode a $6k bike...waaaayyyy out of my league & way too much bike for me. Awesome though. FUN!

Sport
  • FitBit
  • 05m

FitBit: 9688 steps, 44 floors, 5.2mi. I forgot it on the charger in the evening, so I know it was well over 10k steps. Ooops.

4 months until my 31st birthday: lose 15lbs & have the skirt I wore on my 21st birthday be too loose, or more loose, than it was back then. Superficial, but I'm ok with that.

May 5

Sport
  • FitBit
  • 05m

FitBit: slow day! Stood around a lot, apparently didn't walk that much. 6352 steps, 7 floors, 2.69mi

Should be having a good training day in the mountains, or at the Tour de Gila, but instead I'm cooking queso for a baby shower, getting nails done, going to baby shower, then a Kentucky de Mayo derby party...sigh. :(

May 4

Run
  • 1h 00m
  • 4.01 miles
  • 14m 57s /Mi

Walk to work. Nice morning, excellent way to catch up with a friend! Might start alternating walk & run days so I can talk on the phone.

Sport
  • FitBit
  • 05m

FitBit: 17959 steps, 61 floors, 9.57mi. This isn't counting our hour+ walk at the dog park, then shopping & dinner (I left it at dinner).

May 3

Sport #1
  • bodyweight squats
  • 05m

FitBit: 13501 steps, 5.72mi, 14floors.
Squats: 190

Sport #2
  • FitBit
  • 05m

FitBit: 13501 steps, 5.72mi, 14floors.
Squats: 190

So my a$$hole coworker tells me today that he "loves all the recipes from that website!" (marks daily apple). Says they taste great for being so healthy. Then he GRAZES all day: cans of salted mix nuts, trail mix, 2-3 packages of Reese's, and today a "healthy snack!" (his words) of NutriGrain low-fat cereal bars. Then tells me my salad looks really good. Sure guy. Whatever.

May 2

Run
  • 52m 36s
  • 3.84 miles
  • 13m 42s /Mi

Mostly walk, some run, to work. Pretty good pace for mostly walking. Nice temps this AM, but windy. Getting a windstorm tonight.

Sport #1
  • bodyweight squats
  • 03m

35 pushups, 200 squats. Giving my shoulder a break, it's sore. Tweaked it at the pool party sat being stupid.

FitBit: don't know how to account for time with this. Have to do something so it shows, dunno.
Steps: 18,312.
Floors climbed: 61
Calories: 2782 (not that accurate I know)

Sport #2
  • FitBit
  • 05m

35 pushups, 200 squats. Giving my shoulder a break, it's sore. Tweaked it at the pool party sat being stupid.

FitBit: don't know how to account for time with this. Have to do something so it shows, dunno.
Steps: 18,312.
Floors climbed: 61
Calories: 2782 (not that accurate I know)

Sport #3
  • Pushups
  • 03m

35 pushups, 200 squats. Giving my shoulder a break, it's sore. Tweaked it at the pool party sat being stupid.

FitBit: don't know how to account for time with this. Have to do something so it shows, dunno.
Steps: 18,312.
Floors climbed: 61
Calories: 2782 (not that accurate I know)

So one of our soldiers, a coworker, at work died 2 days ago (or middle of night on the 1st) in Afghanistan.
An ICU nurse. 
Nothing has been released, not on the iCasulaties list and the "story" is unconfirmed. I'm hesitant to take it as 100% true (the cause/circumstance, not the actual death), but it's still mind blowing and sad. 

It was rough at work yesterday and I don't imagine the rest of the week will be any better.

May 1

Run
  • 06m
  • 0.70 miles
  • 08m 34s /Mi

Lunch tabatas! 1min walk, 4min tabatas, 1cd.
7.5% incline, 8.2mph.

Sport #1
  • bodyweight squats
  • 10m

100pu, 260 squats.

Sport #2
  • Pushups
  • 10m

100pu, 260 squats.

Alright, April was pretty weak. Tight nutrition fell off the radar & my work workouts were almost non-existent due to the marathons & travel. Hitting it hard for May! My weight has been the same for almost a month. Ugh. Guess this will be a long road. 

Why Haley Can't Have Nice Things, v. 8.0: 

I ordered a FitBit a couple weeks ago after seeing my friends in action while we were in Boston. Amazing! Love it. Not a 100% accurate piece of equipment, but it's definitely good to see trends. It arrived Friday evening. Set it up, used it Sat! Sat went to the pool party...forgot it was on my bathing suit. By Sunday, didn't work. Lovely. (sending it back to Amazon, already ordered a new one)

Last Monday I locked my keys in the car. Brilliance again. While getting my crap together standing next to the door (Jacket, phone, wallet), I realized my keys were in the ignition. Then I dropped my phone. Now it has cracks on the top 1/4 of the face...along with the back being completely shattered. 

Lets count here: 2 shattered iPhones, countless ipods, & iPad broken (while in a case) & now a FitBit. 

April 30

Sport #1
  • bodyweight squats
  • 05m

50pu, 125 squats at work.

Sport #2
  • Pushups
  • 05m

50pu, 125 squats at work.

Ummmm, yeah. So I was too ambitious and not as productive as I wanted this weekend. 

Pool party sat. 
Pool party sun.
Then Hash 4-6:30p Sun.
Then exhausted.
Was fun though!

This is a typical ELP run. No, not a huge net gain, but the hills are big & the air is thinner and saturated with dust and sand. I guess this was good 50k training:

elevation 

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Comet's Training Log


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